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Confused about Microsoft Lists
Hi GraemeNZ - these Lists are an extension/improvement of SharePoint Lists. You'll find the same experience when creating a new list from a SharePoint Site. The Lists as an app provides a central dashboard to access all lists you have permissions to and a way to create new lists that you can keep for personal use or save to a site. Soon, there's also supposed to be an iOS app and offline access.
I agree that it has caused a lot of confusion for orgs and end users. I think to get all the additional functionality like Rules, conditional formatting and form editing that it had to be kind of pulled away from just SharePoint to its own app. After embracing Planner for the last couple years and still finding it lacking, I'm really appreciating the flexibility of Lists.
Hi GraemeNZ - the issues that we've run into with Planner is that we can't add our own fields. For project management, we like to be able to add a people picker field for the PM. With the new calendar view in Lists, it's easier to see the whole month, where Planners calendar view leaves a lot to be desired. It's also easier to add granular/specific reminder dates and emails with Lists, and you can embed Lists on any page in a Comms Site, where Planner can only be embedded onto a Teams site page. Hope that helps!
Hi SusanMcClements - sadly no. I'm hoping that MSFT will make the move to include our conditional formatting in the calendar view, but so far I don't see it on the roadmap. The traditional calendar with calendar overlays still exist, but who knows for how long. I wish I had a better answer for you. Maybe someone else in the community can jump on this thread with advice for both of us.